The History of Sexuality Series by Michel Foucault

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  • The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality #1)
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    The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (The History of Sexuality #1)

    Michel Foucault

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    · 26 ratings · published 1976

    Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our sexuality is.

  • The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality #2)
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    The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure (The History of Sexuality #2)

    Michel Foucault

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    · 16 ratings · published 1984

    In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality... more

  • The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (The History of Sexuality #3)
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    The History of Sexuality, Volume 3: The Care of the Self (The History of Sexuality #3)

    Michel Foucault

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    · 14 ratings · published 1984

    Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of moral reflection among philosophers (Plutarch, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca) and physicians of the era, and uncovers an increasing mistrust of pleasure and growing anxiety over sexual activity and its consequences.

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